asciilifeform: hrusch incidentally made the irrecoverable idiot move that set up sovok for kindermat -- began exporting petro & other diggables.☟︎
asciilifeform: ( and not merely because of the obvious complication, tho it did not help -- e.g. peter also could not find a second one of himself to put in the throne )☝︎
asciilifeform: i.e. gigatonne of purposeless biomass.
asciilifeform: at the risk of oversimplification -- if not for the corpses, ru today would not be easily distinguishable from india.
asciilifeform: interestingly, however, meat grinder ~also~ success -- culled peasant herd ( exactly like england had to in 1700s ) and decimated the 'axe handles' in the professional officer corps ( buharin et al, quite ready to serve germany, england, france, in exchange for 'miami' )
asciilifeform: installed l. p. beria as grand vizier, who immediately beheaded the leftists who operated lenin's meat grinder, and amnestied 1/3 or so of total prisoner ( hrusch -- murdered beria, let go another 1/3 and took credit for whole thing, and repainted beria as 'cannibal' )
asciilifeform: trinque: management ~success~. contrary to western reich Official histories, stalin in fact terminated the self-licking cone.
asciilifeform: gotta luvv the limba de lemn, as well as the smoke bomb 'ooh it's about broken installations, not factorable moduli, dun listen to terrorists' and 'here's our fix, use our New, Improved, Curated keyserv at ftmea^HH^H^H^Hopenpgp.org' etc
asciilifeform if were drawn, prolly would be riding a tortoise or such
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: the manticore, was yours, was drawing on your www header, 'mp rides the manticore'
asciilifeform wonders if ordinary hammock too much resembles that rope-and-iron-frames fixator mp_en_viaje described as having built for the pets, and from this can't stomach sitting on it himself
asciilifeform: naturally 'not real bridge', can't roll a train over it. i imagine the ones in cr were built by che guevara's partizans or somesuch, under cover of night
asciilifeform: ( it's ~no good for anyffin practical until i bake a cuntoo or at the very least a clean buildroot for it, and won't get chance for a while, thing is on back burner )
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: thinking about it, would also like to eventually proclaim the mips tool set as a snsa production. but prolly premature for broadcast.
asciilifeform: even the lappies here in torture room aint 'as came from factory', pretty much all needed nic swap at least
asciilifeform: 'why wouldja pay someone to screw in mobo, you don't have screwdriver ? or hands? what is it you dun have'
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: i still recall a time when ~errybody with pc compat 'made' in this sense
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: it was pretty common for sovok folx, of all stripes such that could afford summer house, to build w/ own hands
asciilifeform: ( 1 of the few rapidly expanding 'industries' in fact )
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: already 'ended up' . in usa already serious shortage of folx specializing in care of zombies
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo, mp_en_viaje : incidentally nicotine is iirc muscarinic ~agonist~ , and so suggests that from decline of tobacco comes guess what else
asciilifeform: revolutionaries break vital organ -- mechanism of succession to throne. this almost always gives same pattern. ( and in that light, north kr, for whatever idiocies, is unusual and worth to study , is exception )☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: each went bust for reasons wholly unrelated to 'the beoble' and what they 'could/could not stand'
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: not the least bit pissed off. simply must point out that to frame as 'they could not stand' is mistake, it aint as if villagers with pitchforks swapped sovok-1 for sovok-2 , or 2 for 3, etc
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: it's rather like to say 'rome couldn't stand what it has built 4 times'.
asciilifeform recently swapped carb on grass cutter, took most of a day
asciilifeform: iirc BingoBoingo once maintained small petrol engines, knows the hell
asciilifeform: and w/out the smoke of petrol, or cleaning carb, swapping filters, oil, etc
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: why, i wonder, nonexistent ? chinese electrothing will take you across whole montevideo 3-4x on 1 charge
asciilifeform: radius of error typically was such that could put asciilifeform's home town into iraq.☟︎
asciilifeform: i've spoken to coupla dozen d00dz in usa who went to iraq. all admitted to having had ~0 notion of where on the globe it was, prior to trip.
asciilifeform: in re kindergarten education, otoh -- typical sovok schoolboy could draw a reasonably-exact map of europe, asia, americas. from memory. when was the time when western reich schoolboy could do this ?
asciilifeform: afaik the last english periodical for intelligent non-professional who 'friends with his head' , was 'scientific american'. i have a set of these here, 1960-1990. pretty good, but no comparison with e.g. 'kvant'.☟︎
asciilifeform: re philology i am less equipped to comment, but consider a typical philologic puzzler from 'science&life' in 1980s, from asciilifeform's own b00kcase -- here's a passage in $obscurelang (kazah, chukcha, chechen), here's defs of 6 words. nao answer these-here q's re the text...
asciilifeform: the last, iirc, western reich item asciilifeform bought that came with schems, was... commodore-64.
asciilifeform: from 'volga' auto to bk0010 micro-pdp.
asciilifeform: culture-of-literacy was pervasive, and such that is even difficult to describe to the uninitiated today. e.g. virtually ALL manufactured objects of any complexity came with schematics, exactly like e.g. FG today☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: for the subhumans, rotgut was available in qty, made'em vehehery easy to distinguish from actual people from a cannon's shot distance
asciilifeform: admittedly mp_en_viaje grew up in cluj and not in muhosransk. but the general pattern held. in sovok folx collected bottles, newsprint, to trade for buying b00kz.
asciilifeform: ( fwiw i suspect that cia selling dope ~in usa~ really is 'employees using office equp. for personal gain', rather than political project. consider, you have fleet of seekrit planes, airstrips, 0 customs inspections, how couldja ~not~ traffic dope )☟︎
asciilifeform: it has own idea of 'for where', perhaps. i suspect mp_en_viaje knows moar on subj, might say when wakes up.
asciilifeform: (from usg's pov -- afghan was to be conquered so to expand supply of heroin into ru, rather than to bring across the ocean)
asciilifeform: 2001-nao, at least in usa, is typically on synthetics
asciilifeform: and for that matter, why is it possible for 'tomahawk', built by finest reagan-era 'civilized' beings, to be shot with rocket little different from what was designed during reign of stalin ?
asciilifeform: for half century whole 'civilized world' trained for replay of ww2, and shat pants with fear. of whom, exactly, of 'fractally fucked morons' ? who fears moron, and why ?☟︎
asciilifeform: in re: e.g. http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-27#1920320 , i find the 'civilized' world's pov re sovok to be profoundly schizoid, and quite reminiscent of e.g. hitler's of the j00z -- i.e. somehow simultaneously 'imbeciles, incapable of constructive work' and 'devilish genius that controls world'☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: asciilifeform says : fuck the jeans. with red hot poker. i'll happily give back the jeans. gimme back 'kvant' and 0 rent.
asciilifeform: or for that matter the research culture that was the butthurt envy of entire 'civilized world' (as late as '90, pentagon spent $B's on translations, from which cribbed all sortsa material, e.g. 'stealth airplane' )
